Month: February 2015

One of the projects that I am doing at work is set up Brocade ICX 6110 switches to be deployed in our data centers. I have decided once in a while I will be posting some of the things i’ve learned with that project. I’m so used to cisco switch commands to transitioning to brocades was a little bit of a learning curve. I am referring to how they treat trunks and vlans.

In the brocade universe and other vendors, they used tags to define trunks. Trunks on the other hand is defined as etherchannels, its crazy right? Anyway this blog is showing you the difference between creating a vlan and putting a management ip per vlan on a cisco switch and a brocade switch.

Two weeks into working for a service provider and I fee like I’ve been with the company for months. I am going through so much technology in a span of days and just praying I could get familiar with them all the soonest possible way. At this point, I am against time and my capacity just to take it all in which is something I don’t complain about.

I feel like going back to basics and re-think about my plans to take the CCIE, instead go for something more relevant to what I am doing. In a few days I am thinking of booking my CCNA SPNG1 exam. It would have been nice if it was like all the other tracks wherein if you have your CCNA RS, all you have to take is a single exam and you have your 2nd Associate level cert. Unfortunately, its a different track meaning I have no choice but to take the two exams. Its a good review anyway.

Let me just share the technology I work with:

Cisco ASR 1000 series core routers

Cisco ME 3400 series switches

Cisco’s C170, used to be called Ironport before Cisco bought the company

Sonicwall firewall

Fortinet firewall

Cisco ADSL routers

Telstra’s LOLO, LOLS (funny names)

AAPT Frontier

Brocade ICX 6610 switches

Web services such as DNS, Domains

Solarwinds Netview

Netflow

There are more technologies but at this point I have no access to them yet.

It is really a humbling experience, that’s all I can say. All the more I am realizing that I don’t know a lot.